Misconduc:5 Years doesnt cover it. 10-15 years minimum i would slam the hammer and say 15 years. His life was trashed for no reason, her life can be slammed for a good reason.

I'm no lawyer, but it might not even be perjury. Banks pled no contest to rape and the school district settled the lawsuit, so Gibson probably never took the witness stand. You don't throw someone in jail for a decade just because they're a coont. They have to have committed an actual crime.

The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

dookdookdook:Misconduc: 5 Years doesnt cover it. 10-15 years minimum i would slam the hammer and say 15 years. His life was trashed for no reason, her life can be slammed for a good reason.

I'm no lawyer, but it might not even be perjury. Banks pled no contest to rape and the school district settled the lawsuit, so Gibson probably never took the witness stand. You don't throw someone in jail for a decade just because they're a coont. They have to have committed an actual crime.

The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

dookdookdook:Misconduc: 5 Years doesnt cover it. 10-15 years minimum i would slam the hammer and say 15 years. His life was trashed for no reason, her life can be slammed for a good reason.

I'm no lawyer, but it might not even be perjury. Banks pled no contest to rape and the school district settled the lawsuit, so Gibson probably never took the witness stand. You don't throw someone in jail for a decade just because they're a coont. They have to have committed an actual crime.

The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

mcmnky:Yes, because the lawsuit was filed as, "I may have been raped."

Civil perjury has a maximum sentence of 4 years in California, is almost never prosecuted, and would probably never succeed here since she recanted her recanting and there's no other proof she was lying. The main reason the school district won this judgment was that she didn't show up for court.

dookdookdook:The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

I'm betting that she went out and found a shyster who knew there was pretty damn good chance that a settlement would include lawyer's fees, and that the football player kid would be able to get a scrub public defender at best.

mcmnky: Yes, because the lawsuit was filed as, "I may have been raped."

Civil perjury has a maximum sentence of 4 years in California, is almost never prosecuted, and would probably never succeed here since she recanted her recanting and there's no other proof she was lying. The main reason the school district won this judgment was that she didn't show up for court.

And giving the settlement money back to the district wouldn't help, the superintendent would probably just get a bonus or worse a raise like in Beaverton, Oregon. After a special election was held to enact a levy to add teachers he took an $8,000/year raise to $193,000. Unless he's crapping gold bricks, no way he's worth half that. Why couldn't he get by on his $185,000? Was he having trouble feeding his family like Spree?

That's part of what is wrong with education in this country. PAY THE FARKING TEACHERS!! Not the administrators.

What exactly did he do to deserve a raise? Need an additional $15 million from the tax payers to get through the next year?

mcmnky: Yes, because the lawsuit was filed as, "I may have been raped."

Civil perjury has a maximum sentence of 4 years in California, is almost never prosecuted, and would probably never succeed here since she recanted her recanting and there's no other proof she was lying. The main reason the school district won this judgment was that she didn't show up for court.

Uncle Pooky:dookdookdook: The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

I'm betting that she went out and found a shyster who knew there was pretty damn good chance that a settlement would include lawyer's fees, and that the football player kid would be able to get a scrub public defender at best.

You can't hire a private attorney to prosecute someone for a crime, that's handled by the county/district attorney. She didn't sue him in civil court, she sued the district. So the fact that he could not get a fair trial had nothing to do with who she hired, and everything to do with the locally elected politicians.

dookdookdook:Misconduc: 5 Years doesnt cover it. 10-15 years minimum i would slam the hammer and say 15 years. His life was trashed for no reason, her life can be slammed for a good reason.

I'm no lawyer, but it might not even be perjury. Banks pled no contest to rape and the school district settled the lawsuit, so Gibson probably never took the witness stand. You don't throw someone in jail for a decade just because they're a coont. They have to have committed an actual crime.

The fact that Banks didn't believe he could get a fair trial was as much to blame for the situation as Gibson.

False police report in the least, and her parents were in on it too. She needs to be in prison and they need to make laws to protect men from false accusations other than a slap on the wrist or else these will continue. Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then. If nothing else CPS should deem her an unfit parent and take her litter away.....hit her where it really hurts, then take away her welfare.

Meh, she was only a teenager when this went down. I'd blame her parents. They probably made her lie, one way or another, knowingly or not.

Anyway, she's a single other on welfare and can't pay anything back. (Pretty sad that someone can piss away what could have been a $700k college scholarship, all that money and stupid biatch couldn't buy some birth control).

IAmRight:OhioUGrad: Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then.

Yeah, because clearly they should believe the courts are able to determine the truth.

Duke lacrosse players, and Banks, and there have been several other high profile cases...

Women are already afraid or ashamed to come forward in most cases, I don't think being able to go back and put them in prison if it is proved they lied would be anymore of a barrier. I'm not saying the woman goes to jail if the guy is found "not guilty" or a mistrial or anything, but if they had solid evidence of lying (as in the 2 cases I mentioned),

She should pay in every conceivable legal way, and her status as a parent should be adjudicated in light of the lengths she went to in order to destroy a young man's life. No way should that woman be allowed to raise kids.

In a just world, this woman and her family, who was in on the whole thing, would spend at LEAST as much time in prison as Banks did and be forced to not only pay the school, but pay Banks back money as well.

And giving the settlement money back to the district wouldn't help, the superintendent would probably just get a bonus or worse a raise like in Beaverton, Oregon. After a special election was held to enact a levy to add teachers he took an $8,000/year raise to $193,000. Unless he's crapping gold bricks, no way he's worth half that. Why couldn't he get by on his $185,000? Was he having trouble feeding his family like Spree?

That's part of what is wrong with education in this country. PAY THE FARKING TEACHERS!! Not the administrators.

What exactly did he do to deserve a raise? Need an additional $15 million from the tax payers to get through the next year?

Story/threadjack, sorry

Um, judging by the story (and without knowing more), he managed to convince voters to increase the budget by 4.3% and then took a 4.3% raise. If a business's CEO oversaw an increase in revenue would you have a problem with his salary being increased by the same amount as the revenue increase?

OhioUGrad:IAmRight: OhioUGrad: Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then.

Yeah, because clearly they should believe the courts are able to determine the truth.

Duke lacrosse players, and Banks, and there have been several other high profile cases...

Women are already afraid or ashamed to come forward in most cases, I don't think being able to go back and put them in prison if it is proved they lied would be anymore of a barrier. I'm not saying the woman goes to jail if the guy is found "not guilty" or a mistrial or anything, but if they had solid evidence of lying (as in the 2 cases I mentioned),

Stop the presses. Something's happened several times in a country of over 300 million people.

Dafatone:OhioUGrad: IAmRight: OhioUGrad: Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then.

Yeah, because clearly they should believe the courts are able to determine the truth.

Duke lacrosse players, and Banks, and there have been several other high profile cases...

Women are already afraid or ashamed to come forward in most cases, I don't think being able to go back and put them in prison if it is proved they lied would be anymore of a barrier. I'm not saying the woman goes to jail if the guy is found "not guilty" or a mistrial or anything, but if they had solid evidence of lying (as in the 2 cases I mentioned),

Stop the presses. Something's happened several times in a country of over 300 million people.

Guess you'd just consider it a rare occurrence if it happened to you then?

OhioUGrad:Dafatone: OhioUGrad: IAmRight: OhioUGrad: Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then.

Yeah, because clearly they should believe the courts are able to determine the truth.

Duke lacrosse players, and Banks, and there have been several other high profile cases...

Women are already afraid or ashamed to come forward in most cases, I don't think being able to go back and put them in prison if it is proved they lied would be anymore of a barrier. I'm not saying the woman goes to jail if the guy is found "not guilty" or a mistrial or anything, but if they had solid evidence of lying (as in the 2 cases I mentioned),

Stop the presses. Something's happened several times in a country of over 300 million people.

Guess you'd just consider it a rare occurrence if it happened to you then?

Uh...

What happened to Banks is horrible. But this isn't a widespread epidemic, and the fact that a bunch of men on fark (and, really, all over the place) treat it as such is troubling.

OhioUGrad:IAmRight: OhioUGrad: Blah blah blah about women being afraid to come forward if they really are raped...they wouldn't be worried about lying then.

Yeah, because clearly they should believe the courts are able to determine the truth.

Duke lacrosse players, and Banks, and there have been several other high profile cases...

Women are already afraid or ashamed to come forward in most cases, I don't think being able to go back and put them in prison if it is proved they lied would be anymore of a barrier. I'm not saying the woman goes to jail if the guy is found "not guilty" or a mistrial or anything, but if they had solid evidence of lying (as in the 2 cases I mentioned),

Aside from the high profile cases, I wonder how often this happens that we don't hear about.

There was a case near me a few years back where a girl went to a party and stayed out too late and as an excuse to her parents so she wouldn't get in trouble, she accused 2 other guys of raping her. They were arrested and for close to a year their names were dragged through the mud before she finally told the truth. No charges were brought against her and even after she admitted to lying her name still never made the news.

Even though their case never made it to trial they still suffered and you can still find the accusations on the internet and of course they have a record of arrest. And of course, they were incarcerated for a period of time.